Fabian Schlabrendorff

(1907 - 1980)

Fabian von Schlabrendorff was born in Germany in 1907. Trained as a lawyer he joined the German Army and was promoted
to adjutant to Henning von
Tresckow. He joined the resistance against Adolf
Hitler and on March 14, 1943, he put a bomb on a plane carrying
Hitler to Smolensk but the detonator malfunctioned and the bomb failed
to explode.

Schlabrendorff was arrested after the July
Plot and was tortured by the Gestapo.
He refused to talk and was sent to Dachau.
He was eventually acquitted of treason in March 1945 and was released
at the end of the war.

After the war, Schlabrendorff was a judge of the Constitutional
Court of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1967 to 1975.